Co-emergence and Collapse: The Mesoscopic Approach for Conceptualizing and Investigating the Functional Integration of Organisms

The fall of reductionist approaches to explanation leaves biology with an unescapable challenge: how to decipher complex systems. This entails a number of very critical questions, the most basic ones being: “What do we mean by ‘complex’?” and “What is the system we should look for?” In complex syste...

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Main Authors: Mariano Bizzarri, Alessandro Giuliani, Andrea Pensotti, Emanuele Ratti, Marta Bertolaso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2019.00924/full